BuzzFeed is ramping up its sales pitch to marketers interested in pairing the publisher’s ad capabilities with its growing commerce operation.

This week, BuzzFeed has started pitching advertisers on two new products: a branded commerce posts offering through which the publisher would create custom posts for brands and their products and drive users to purchase through affiliate links; and a new shoppable ad unit that would appear across relevant shopping posts on BuzzFeed’s website.

Among digital publishers, BuzzFeed’s ad business is large, responsible for the majority of the company’s revenues, which was north of $300 million in 2018. BuzzFeed’s commerce business, meanwhile, drove more than $250 million in transactions last year from affiliate sales and licensing revenue, according to Lee Brown, chief revenue officer of BuzzFeed.

With these two new commerce-based ad products, BuzzFeed hopes to “create a better connection between our ad business and commerce business,” Brown said.

BuzzFeed’s latest efforts come as the publisher aims to diversify revenue — as well as its ad revenue — in 2019. The company recently underwent some layoffs and restructuring as the publisher looks to build a more sustainable business. During a speech at SXSW this weekend, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti is expected to announce that BuzzFeed will generate more than $100 million in revenue in 2019 from lines of business that didn’t exist for the company in 2017.

BuzzFeed’s pitch to marketers is that it already knows how to do custom native posts for advertisers. And the publisher has some experience in creating custom posts for commerce-driven marketers, such as this native post about a writer trying Quip’s toothbrush. Now, it wants to help marketers use those native posts to drive clicks and sales.

“With branded commerce posts, that’s us working with brands specifically around product features, benefits, how it compares to the marketplace, any special offers, and making sure the post is done in the brand’s voice,” Brown said. “It’s a whole post dedicated and specific to one brand.”

With the shoppable ad unit, BuzzFeed’s pitching its affiliate network, which has made the publisher a top-five referrer of traffic to Amazon today, according to SimilarWeb. “There are only a few of us [publishers] that can play in this space at the size and scale that we can offer,” said Brown.

With BuzzFeed’s reach, especially among young female audiences, the publisher has a chance to grab ad dollars from maturing direct-to-consumer brands and other marketers interested in commerce-driven publisher campaigns, said Kait Boulos, vp of marketing for Varick.

“Everyone is getting into the commerce game — it’s a wise thing and it’s something we are definitely watching,” Boulos said. “Anything that’s going to shorten a consumer’s pathway to purchase is going to be interesting for any marketer, right?”

Brown said BuzzFeed’s ads-and-commerce business has between 50 and 100 clients with work that spans everything from BuzzFeed being a consultant, doing a product workshop with the brand and regular affiliate sales. And while DTC brands are an obvious target for performance-driven ad products, Brown said BuzzFeed is eyeing a larger pie.